War Has Shifted How Power Works in Iran

War has shifted how power works in Iran

When Washington on August 19 unveiled its economic “D-Day” – the latest tightening of the financial siege and the blockade around Iran’s ports – it believed it was applying decisive leverage. But in Tehran the move was read as something else entirely: as confirmation that the US still prefers pressure to any settlement it might […] The post War has shifted how power works in Iran appeared first on Asia Times.

War has shifted how power works in Iran

When Washington unveiled its economic “D-Day” on August 19, the latest tightening of the financial siege and the blockade around Iran’s ports, it believed it was applying decisive leverage. But in Tehran the move was read as something else entirely – as confirmation that the US still prefers pressure to any settlement it might one day have to honour. Across a political system that agrees on almost nothing, the interpretation was remarkably unifo…

The Faceless War: How Artificial Intelligence Rewrote the Map of Power (Small Wars Journal)

Small Wars Journal: The Faceless War: How Artificial Intelligence Rewrote the Map of Power. “A small number of private technology firms now build the infrastructure on which both military power and the public’s perception of reality depend. Drawing on a 2025 wargaming experiment at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and on the documented information war of the June 2025 Israel-Iran conflict, this essay argues that simulated combat a…